St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06

lllc ueAl III WAS DdckeU ike Cdlltl,
and at last it was very like whale" !"
No one of these men was even charged
with throwing the bomb, and Parsons
still insists, as the record of the trial
shows, that his wife and children were
with him at the Haymarket meeting.
ever, that the prisoners were tried and
found guilty, after sixty days investi-
CATION; that, with the trifling exception
noted above, the judges of the
supreme court on appeals unanimously
sustain the action of the lower court,
and that after careful consideration the
supreme court of the United States in
sist that everything was done regularly
and in order. There is nothing which
the most expert lawyer can detect or
argue about, and the whole question re-
solves itself into that of mercy, and in
side of that question is the kernel of the
whole affair. Would the governor be
justified in
Forcing Mercy
upon men who resolutely refuse to ask
for it, and impertinently notify him of
the fact. do not believe. if the moose
were about his neck, that Lingg could be
induced to sign petition to the gov
ernor. l understand that he is particu-
larly annoyed with phrase in the pc
tition which would lead people to imag-
inc that he was pleading the baby act;
that he would pretend that at the time
of their preaching anarchy, he didn't
know the end they were seeking,
namely, the destruction of the state.
Said he:
Il believe it is the state which causes
all our trouble, and if l may be COM
PEELED to be something which l don't
wish to and which is to my advantage
as an individual, is it any less a tyranny
and wrong if l was compelled by the
authorities and the states, representing
millions of people, to do it? No, no.
When used the language 1 did and
took the step took l meant revolt
Against the State,
and in explanation of the stand taken
by them all, Mr.. Lum, the editor of the
Alarm, says:
This effort is to get the seven men to
sign a petition which shall mean one
thing to the governor and another thing
to the signers. l honestly believe that
if the whole seven took the same
ground as four of them have taken in
their open letters to Gov. Oglesby,
their lives could be saved. | think the
men who are clamOring for their lives
would hesitate to make martyrs out
of them, for, as sure as they die,
they will be regarded as such,
while thousands may honestly believe
them deceived, infatuated, till the fact
remains that an open. bold course is the
best one. The test is whether they pre-
fer principle or not. Innocent of crime
or intention to murder Officer Degan
they are now urged to appear before
the public in a compromising position.
Their own friends, those nearest to
them, decline to give them any advice
what they shall do, but their friends
say: Its not for us to advise you.
We are on the
Ou tside of the Bars.
You are Oh the inside. You must de-
eide that for yOurselve."
''What do you think the governor will
do?n
Il feel certain that three of the men
if not four of them will hang. If they
had all stuck together more of them
would, because they would all be mar
tyrs. Society dares not do that. The
three men have been conscientious in
signing it. Mind you they have been
led to believe that it was a mere matter
Of fOrm-like signing the appeals to the
state and federal supreme cGurts-a
mere matter of form, not a matter OF
principle. The rest of the men will re-
,eive Communication"
"Will there be any trouble at the
time of the execution"
Not in the least"
''Will there be any at the funeral.
You know in Paris, then it is when the
lots have been, when the bodies of the
communists have been
Duried."
There won't be any trouble l hope, |
and unless some Guiteau, who knows
,auses trouble. But two years hence,
We may see great change, Why, bless |
Tour soul, in 1859
Carried a Torch
n parade at Buffalo, rejoicing over |
he victory for law and order which the |
ranging of John Brown Signalized. Two |
Tears afterwards was carrying a mus
let over Virginia singing John Browns |
Body don't mean to draw any par
lllel about the musket, understand. l |
imply want to show how mems minds |
hange. That bomb was the greatest |
ducatOr of the working classes that
ould have been devised if one had de-
iberately set to work to plot such a
hing"
Mr.. Lum, by the way, is intrusted by
Parsons with all his manuscripts for re-
iSion, and also with the care of his
uneral. think there is no doubt that
'arsons expects to die, and is entirely
eady to go. Whatever is done, Parsons
lanliness can never be disputed. He,
GU will remember, had escaped, and
iced never have returned. He did so
f his own vOlitiOn, to which. possibly,
he advice OF his counsel, Capt. Black,
Omewh at contributed, but he is enti-
ed to
All the Credit.
/ cannot quite understand Mrs. Par
Ons, who appears to be in most excel
ent humOr when she calls upon him in
ne corridor. She chats pleasantly fif-
zen or twenty minutes at a time, and
hen goes out ON the streets with her
asket full of the little pamphlets which
ere at first bound in red, but now in
reen, because, she says, it suits the po-
ce better. No one here takes any
5ock in the story coming from Pittsburg
1ncerning the man who confesses that
q threw the hOmh Mrs Parsons save |